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Quotation dates: 1490-1499
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Perversité, n. [e.m.E. (1528).] Stubbornness in evil; persistence in wrong-doing. — 1490 Irland Mir. II. 150/3.
All this he did to draw thame to his luf and seruice bot thar peruersite wauld nocht suffer it a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 213 (Harl.).
Iob and Dauid … Quhilkis … of stark schrewis pvnist peruersite
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